Flag



March 20, 1928.

' M. F. DESPECHER FLAG Filed April 16, 1927' Patented Mar. 20, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATEN o FICELQ MARY FRANCES, nnsrncimn, or RALS'ION,NEBRASKA.

FLAG.

Application filed April 16, 1927. Serial No. 184,263. g

This invention relates to flags and has for an object to provide a flaghaving new and improved features of construction augmenting the wearingqualities of the flag as well as presenting features which prevent theflag from sagging in a calm.

A further object of the invention is to provide a flag, the presentutility of which isbelieved to be as a golf marker while it is to beunderstood thatthe invention is not limited to that use but includes anyflag wherein the corners are turned inwardly upon opposite sides of theflag so that at the fly end of the flag it is thickened by severallaminated layers of the fabric.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention comprises certain novel arrange- It is well known that invarious utilities of flags and markers, notably in the use of 3ssuch-devices in markers for golf courses, the

flags are subjected to exceedingly hard wear and, therefore, must bereplaced I often.

F lags ordinarily employed also fall down in a substantially straightline during a calm and do not perform their function of indicating thespot marked.

The present flag is intended to. overcome these difficulties in themaximum degree by providing the fly end of the flag with reinforcements,which reinforcements areformed from parts of the flag structure itselffolded, which not only reduces wear to the minimum but also serves tohold the flag more or less extended during a calm and. therefore, inposition to be seen.

Initially the flag is a substantially rectangular member, thesizeindicated by the dot and dash line 10. This is constructedpreferably of two thicknesses of fabric, one upon each side, with themarginal edges turned inwardly and secured by rows of stitching 11. Alsopreferably the fabrics upon the opposite sides of the flag will be ofdifferent colors, although, of course, the different coloring does notenter into the mechanical invention involved herein.

The rectangular flag thus constructed has its fly corners folded, oneupon one side and one'upon the other side of the body as indicated at 12and 13. These infolded and overlapping corners will be stitched to thebody by means ofrows of stitchings 1 1 which also constitutethe seamingof the edges of the infolded' corners, the continuations of thestitching 11. 7

The folds 15 produced bythe. infolded edges will also be maintained inclose contact by means of stitches 16 whereby the flag at the fly endpresents one terminal triangle 17 of merely the double thickness of thefabric, but two adjacent triangles 18 which are double the thickness ofthe two laminae with a quadrangle 19 presenting eight thicknesses of thefabric. 7

If, therefore, in the use of the device the external triangle 17 shouldwear and .disconnect itself from the balance of the flag or even thetriangles 18 should wear through, there would still be a sufficientamount of the flag remaining to serve every purpose.

lVhile the means of attaching the flagto the stake forms no particularpart of the present invention, it is shown as comprising a strip 20folded over the end of the flag secured by stitching 21 and providedwith eyelets 22 .or any approved means for attaching tothe stake, whichmay be acc0mpanied-by and co-act with a cord or cable 23.

What I claim to be new is:

1. A flag composed of connected laminated sheets, parts of saidlaminatedstructure be ing folded to and secured upon opposite sides 2 Aflag composed of connected laminated sheets exposing different colors,parts of said laminated structurebeing folded to and secured uponopposite sides.

3. A flag comprising a body composed of fabric having the upper andlower corners 5. A comprising a body composed of of the fly end foldedtoward the median line laminated fabric having the upper and lower andsecured in such position. corners of the fly end folded toward and 4. Aflag comprising abody composed of across the median line and overlappingand 5 laminated fabrics having the upper and stitched into folded andoverlapped position.

lower corners of the fly end folded toward In testimony whereof I mysignaand over the median line and overlapping tm'e. and secured in suchposition. MARY FRANCES DESPEGHER.

